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. i.. ' , : '■ + WEATHER* Mostly sunny and mild today. High 70-75 except upper 70s ar ound southern Piedmont. Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Wednesday. I • . ,■ _ _ THE RECORD IS FIRST VOULME 9 TELEPHONE 3117 — 3U8 Jtafc - - - - - - - — * « - DUNN, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 7, 1959 FIVE GENTS PE* COPY Na 89 FAYETTEVILLE (UPI) — An ex-jailer and two soldiers accused of rape ware charged today in the escape of an accused killer robber shot to death after a gun battle at a roadblock Monday night. The three were charged with helping Charles Bradford, 26, of Plant City, Fla., and his 18_year old companion, John William Odum of Fayetteville, escape from the Cumberland County jail last Friday. Bradford died in the battle, apparently by his own hand and perhaps accidentally, and Odum surrendered. The formal Charges of violation of the Federal Escape and Res cue Laws were placed against Woodrow Vinson, a former assist ant jailer who was fired effective March 31, three days before the escape; and Hungarian nationals J'.oltan Szabo and Jeno Ronasi, Ft. Bragg soldiers who were in the Cumberland County jail await _ ing trial on charges of rape. They were to be arraigned in Fayette ville today before a U.S. commis sioner. Roy K. Moore, special agent in charge of the Charlotte FBI of. (Continued on Page Five) By HOOVES ADAMS LITTLE NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS Just as expected, stock sales men are finding it tough to make sales in the Dunn area since so many investors were picked dean by Kirchofer and Arnold. Walter Lewis of Carolina Secur ities in Raleigh dropped by the office one day last week. "How’s business, Walter?” we asked. He knew that was a loaded question. “Well, to be frank,” he smiled, "it’s fine every other place except right through here and you know the reason for that.’’ It seemed that Kirchofer center, ed his operations in Harnett and ^ (Continued On Pag* Six) Big Drive Through Dunn Area Feds Collaborate On Still - Raiding Enough federal officers to fight a small war conducted a saturation campaign through this area last week and upended 24 stils. Bil Richardson, chief of the Dunn post of the ATU, reported a total of 18,840 gallons of ferm. enting mash and some 75 .gallons of non-taxpaid whisky were sei zed. The thirteen officers who col laborated in the raid almost ar_ rested one man, Larry D. Tart, and just missed catching another at the same still. Tart, called Shortie by his fri; ends, waived his preliminary hearing before U. S. Commission, er Mallie Jackson and h;is been bound over to federal court at Raleigh under $500 bond. Richardson said officers partici. pa ting in the mass raid which took three days—on April 1, 2 and 3— were* from Goldsboro, Raleigh, Fayetteville and the ABC branch in Sampson County. There were also alcohol tax officers from Rocky Mount. The search itself extended thro, ugh Banner township- of Johnston of Harnett County#’*’ < • - It was a distillery In Meadow County and Aversbaro township township that yielded Larry Tart, according to Richardson. Though the federal officers ex. pect to press hard after bootleggers the leafinesa and fresh . burgeon right through the year—and there ing blossoms that come with April is always an upsurge in Spring— are a boon to liquor.men. It, means. that any attempts to hunt down their stills via tho^Sky will c<>me to nothing. From here on until the leaves go, said Rich, ardson, it’s the ground appn>ach that will work best. Nine Days Left To File Tax It’s later than you think—only 9 days left Uy file your Federal income tax return for 1958. That’s the friendly reminder coming out of Washington, D. C., from U. S. Internal Revenue Com missioner Dana Latham, accord ing to J. E. WaU, District Director at Greensboro, who said: “Commissioner Latham has re quested me to inform all tax payers in this District who have not filed yet of the services we can provide to help them get their returns ki before the April 15 deadline.’' "me moet convenient aervieo," ' Mr. Wall said, “U the telephone assistance service, especially de signed for those taxpayers who find it difficult to visit the Dis trict Office.” CARLISLE, England (UPI) — .Harry Brown has appealed to per sons unknown to stop putting live Parakeets .in his mall , boxes. Brown is locVl Inspector of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. ;• - . A DISGUSTED FROWN curled across the face of pretty Mrs. Ethel Barefoot as attorney Duncan Wilson made her admit she hadn’t seen the knife that killed Howard Johnson, claimed die was “tryinr to protect” her mother. The mother. Mrs. Beulah Strickland, aecuaed as the other woman In triangle that led to Woody slashing, did not appear at the tnqneat. The young witness's hand-on-cheek attitude apparently Inspired juror (foreground) and Policeman Carson Hall (background) to do likewise. (Record Photos by Ted CraH.) Ives, Hiller B Susan ■ G/gr sst Supporting Actors i - , -David Win Oscars; V HOLLYWOOD UPI) — Flame, haired Susan Hayward and suave David Niven, jtwo veterans of movie making, reigned today as the best" actress and actor of 1958. Miss Hayward, 39, a four.time loser, was honored for her per Police Nab Driver When Car Burns }■ i Fleeing Cor Becomes Torch His whole car served as a torch to direct police to William' Earl Ennis, 32-year-old resident of 130 Joy Street, who was arrested last night for careless and reckless driving. • ‘ • Policemen Buddy Jackson and Carson Hall were already out look ing for the car which had crashed into a yard on East Pope Street UNEXPECTED VISIT FROM A DEMOLITIONS EXPERT—R. E. Nance, 27-year-eld Florence, S. C. demolition expert, really didn’t intend to demolish the aide of Mr. and Mrs. J. Harper Jones’ home but that's what he did last niyht about 10:30 o’clock when the car he was driving - went out of contfbt and crossed the highway. Mrs. Jones, aye 70, was busy watohiny the Oscar presentations on television when the flyiny timbers struck and injured her. She’s in the Dunn hos. pita] mid Nance is fa«iny charyes s# reckless drivlny. The impact knocked the elderly woman Into another room of the ho tot, located between Dunn and Godwin. Nance told Patrolman K. L. Beck of Fayetteville that he waa enrooto to Becky Mount where tie * engaged In rtenwHahlna *nne buildings and fell asleep at the aktcL Ho waa also treated bnt his Injuries wore not serious. Mr. Jones was standing nearby but merely frased by the crash. Patrolman Beck and a neighbor are shewn hero looking orKr the ear ao it came to stop with the front inside the rids ef the house. (Dally Record Photo.) b and run over a mailbox. They *had picked up the trail— and were fallowing a stream of gas oline from a leaking tank. But a call came into the Dunn fire station about a 1950 model Oldsmobiie on fire at the corner of South King and West Pope Street. Apparently the accident had set up the fire and the fire, in turn, led to Ennis’s capture and arrest. Since the yard he ran into was lo_ cated just outside the city limits, Chief of Police Alton Cobb said the case was turned over to High way Patrolman David Matthews. Matthews promptly charged En nis and he was released under $100 bond. The trial is set for Monday, April 13. Howard M. Lee, secretary.treas urer of the Dunn Fire Depart ment, said a truck and six ment spent about 20 minutes at the scene getting the fire in the Olds mobile put out. formance in “I Want To Live by (the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences at its 31st annual Academy Awards presen. tation Monday night while a real life drama quietly unfolded at the Niven, 49, was honored for his theater as police checked out a role in “Separate Tables,” false bomb threat. “Gigi,” a technicolor musical based on the novel by French au. thoress Colette, was named the best film and garnered nine Os. cars. One honorary award put the awards bestowed on “Gigi’ at 10 to place it in a tie with all.time award winner "Gone With The Wind” in 1939. The "Best Years of Our Life” won nine awards in 1946. Win Support!**, awards Burl Ives, foUrsinger-turned.ac tor, was named best supporting aator for his role in “The Big Country” and England’s Wendy Hiller was voted best supporting actress for her portrayal' ih "Sep. arate Tables.” Vincente Minnelli won a golden statuette for his direction of “Gigi.” The song “Gigi” from the pic. ture of the same name also cap tured an Oscar, as did the film’s musical scoring by Andre Previn (Continued On Page Six) Renovation Wilt Cost $200,000 Start Courthouse In Just Ten Days Within ten days workmen are expected to start on a massive revamp of the county courthouse that will amount to giving Harn ett a new headquarters for its county operations. The modernized and enlarged courthouse, rather than a brand new one, was a policy adopted by I county commissioners after an attempt to sell a new courthouse to voters, failed. Chairman of Commissioners Lofton A. Tart, president of Dunn’s Commercial Bank, said at the meeting yesterday the board completed letting of contracts. ' The contract for air-condition ing and heating went to McLeod Electrical Company of Buie’s Creek on a bid of <$35,850. Tart1 said total cost of all bids come to $192,031 but the architect’s fee of (Continued on Page Two) Accused Slayer on Stand In Triangle Killing j Connie Tells Of Stolen Love INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UPI) — Connie Nicholas took the witness stand here today to tell how and why her married lover was shot to, death after keeping a tryst with another woman. Her lawyers in this murder ferial approached i the dramatic climax of her story slowly, be ginning with her childhood as an orphan, which she said was spent in moving from one strange home to another. i The defense called the tiny i divorcee a day ahead of schedule i to tell the “full story” of her i love affair with Eli Lilly Vice President Forrest' Teel and his fatal shooting beside her in the front seat of his white Cadillac. ... • - ] . • ‘ Mrs. Nicholas had testified only LO minutes and told of her early [ife when Judge Thomas J. Faulconer recessed the court until l p.m. The loudspeaker system was not functioning properly and :he jury—and the press—could lot hear Mrs. Nicholas welL The 44-year-old brunette was composed and her voice was clear ind emphatic, if low. She wore a >lack silk and wool dress with a lemure white blouse showing at he throat. She had on a small ust-colored hat, and black high »eeled pumps. The 12-men *-n the Jury stared ntensely a* ’»er, taking in the netal <t action) splints on both lands. Mrs. Nicholas says Teel beat her and wrenched her arm {the night she confronted h i m when he came out of the apart ment of his new girl. Defense lawyer Charles Symmes began the questioning on a low key, asking her name and ascer taining that she was born in Lex ington, Ky.. on April 12, 1914. H«r father died in 1923 and her mother In 1927 after she had been in a sanitarium for several years. “What did you do then?” “An uncle took me in in Shelby ville (Ky.)” She moved then to another un cle’s home in Lebanon. Ind., and then was placed in a foster home (CUatfanwd on Page Five) ■A Still Indicted For An Intent To Kill' J By TED CRAIL Record News Editor Thin as a rope and looking hardly strong enough to scour a ’ frying pan, Mrs. Esther Ellen Johnson felt the murder charge lift from her head last night when an inquest jury returned with its verdict. She still faces a court trial. A week from Thursday she will go before Judge H.' Paul Strickland for a preliminary hearing on a Charge1 that, in brutally slashing her husband1 over another wo man, she intended to kill him. But jurors at the inquest agreed with Dr. C. L. Corbet-t that it wasn’t the knife-thrusts which had local law enforcement officials had been well aware of the tro. ubles in the Johnson household. At one time she came to a town official and told him that her husband was sleeping with a hat chet under his pillow and had told her that "when he got ready,” he would use it- <>n her. Thirteen years ago he had act Clutching handkerchief, frail defendant waited verdict. , , , killed her 43 year old husband, Howard Johnson. They ruled that he came to death "by uremic poi soning, or Bright’s Disease.” hirs- Johnson’s face did not lose, even lor a moment, its look of desperate tension when Jurors filed in after debating their ver dict for approximately fifteen min utes. During the past year or more, ually gone to prison tor Killing a man. Accused of murder, along with two companions, in the death t»f Donnie Maynor on Octo ber 5, 1946. lie pled guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to tw<> years. Her husband's oll?ged'.y brutal treatment cf her and his straying love life are likely to be go-re (Continued on Page Six) Predict Failure tor sterilization Measure Harnett Legislators Think Bill Doomed Harnett lawmakers Robert Morgan and Carson Gregory, free on Monday from their duties in the state legislature, met with county commissioners yesterday apd predicted an abortive fate for the sterilization bill. ' "’*v Chairman^ of Commissioners Lofton A. Tart, Dunn banker, quoted Gregory and Morgan as agreeing that the Davis-Jolly bill will probably go down to deftat. Morgan Is in the state senate and Gregory is in the legislature. A big state-wide controversy is now raging over the bill which was endorsed two weeks ago by Harnett’s own Welfare Board. Proponents of the bill think it would be beneficial to the state in relieving the public ‘welfare problem created by payments to (Continued on Pago Five) Employment UpJo Nearly (4 Million WASHINGTON (UPI) — Unem ployment In March fell by 387,000 to 4,362,000, the government re. ported today. Employment shot up by more than a million to nearly 64 million jobs during the same period. The drop in the jobless total was about twice as large as normal for this time of year. Even so, last month’s uaemploy (Confined ea Page ft»)
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